Eric A. Rose

Eric A. Rose, MD is a member and former chairman of the Broadview Strategic Advisory Board. He is the inaugural chairman of the Longview Strategic Advisory Board. He is an academic physician and entrepreneur with interests in drug discovery, biodefense, clinical evaluative research and health policy. He is the Chairman of Siga Technologies, Inc., the developer of an orally bioavailable smallpox anti-viral drug which has been added to the US Strategic National Stockpile.

He is a Professor of Population Health Science, Cardiac Surgery, Surgery, and Cardiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 2008. From 1994 through 2007, he served as Surgeon in Chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he held a distinguished professorship.

An accomplished heart surgeon, researcher and entrepreneur, Dr. Rose grew one of the nation’s premier departments of surgery while managing, investigating and developing complex medical technologies ranging from heart transplantation and novel approaches to Alzheimer’s disease to bioterrorism. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific publications and has received more than $25 million in NIH support for his research.

Dr. Rose pioneered heart transplantation in children, performing the first successful pediatric heart transplant in 1984, and has investigated many alternatives to heart transplantation, including cross-species transplantation and man-made heart pumps. Siga has received more than $100 million in federal research support and more than $1 billion in federal procurement of its smallpox antiviral since he joined the company, He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Columbia University.